College of Health Awards Night Honors Outstanding Students

The college recognized the achievements of eighty of its top students last night at an awards ceremony held at the Thad Cochran Center. Though a highlight of the academic year for the college itself, press releases on such events rarely crack into the news (especially in today’s page-deprived newspapers!). So here’s the text of the university release on the event, in its entirety:

Outstanding students in all of the academic areas of The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Health were recognized at an awards event on Tuesday, April 2, in the Thad Cochran Center.

Dr. Michael Forster, dean of the college, presented the Dean’s Council Awards for Community Service to Karen L. Bell and Karen T. Johnson and the Dean’s Council Awards for Campus Leadership to Traci L. Breland and Alanna L. Fopiano.

Students receiving recognition from the Department of Medical Laboratory Science included Hannah Renee Rice for Excellence in Junior Bacteriology, Excellence in Junior Hematology and Excellence in Research, Ann Morgan Eugene-Wilks for Excellence in Junior Clinical Chemistry. William Adam Shirley for Excellence in Senior Clinical Chemistry, Erica Lynn Salim for Excellence in Senior Hematology, Melissa Miller Keenan for Excellence in Senior Immuno-Hematology, Crystal Machele Thompson for Excellence in Junior Immunology, and Chelsa Nichole Williams for Excellence in Senior Microbiology.

In the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the Peggy Revels Elward Outstanding Senior Award went to Hannah Brooks Martin, the Sertoma Outstanding Graduate Student awards went to Megan Noelle Dunbar in audiology, Sasha Regalado in early oral intervention and Katelyn Rae Voss in speech language pathology. Adam Craig Whipple was recognized as the department’s outstanding graduate student.

The Alton B. Cobb Oustanding Master of Public Health Award was presented to James M. Turner. Also receiving awards from the Department of Community Health Sciences were Leah Parks, Outstanding Master of Public Health Research Award, Valerie Short, Master of Public Health Professional Development Award, Danielle M. Anderson, Lynn Cook Hartwig Outstanding Undergraduate, Kayla Stanley and Linda Walker, Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship Awards, Janet L. Davie-Cramer and Mary Margaret Lang, Undergraduate Service Awards.

The School of Human Performance and Recreation presented awards for outstanding scholarship and outstanding leadership in each of their academic areas. In exercise science, Outstanding Scholarship Award to Dalton A. Newell and Distinguished Leadership Award to Benjamin C. Lyman.

Overall awards in the School of Human Performance and Recreation were presented for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship to Caitlin E. Leumas, Distinguished Undergraduate Leadership to Edward J. Olack, Outstanding Master’s Students to Sonia R. Curvelo and Kyle S. Smith and Outstanding Doctoral Student to David E. Krzeminski.

Students recognized in the Department of Nutrition and Food Systems were SaVanna Beth Sims as the Mississippi Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Nominee for Outstanding Dietetic Intern, Ashley Nicole Bryant as the Mississippi Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Nominee for Outstanding Didactic Student, Rebecca Kent Bishop as the Southern Miss Outstanding Dietetic Intern, Hope Renee Foster as the Outstanding Junior in Nutrition and Food Systems, Kaela S. Perissutti as the Outstanding Senior in Nutrition and Food Systems, Katie Danielle Newton as the Outstanding Master’s Student in Nutrition and Food Systems and Kevin Daniel Haubrick as the Outstanding Doctoral Student in Nutrition and Food Systems.